Northland Sport Endowment Fund – Fund Recipient Kahleah Nathan
Posted on: 10/09/21
In 2016, Sport Northland and the Northland Community Foundation (NCF) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the establishment of a Northland Sport Endowment Fund. As part of the MOA, Sport Northland transferred its Kauri Club Funds of $191,000 to the NCF to kick-start the Sports Northland Endowment Fund. This fund was originally established back in 1988 when local sponsor Northern Bakeries granted Sport Northland some seed funding, and this was added to in 2000 after the family of the late Garry Frew (Sports Editor at the Northern Advocate) donated part of his estate to Sport Northland for the benefit of young sportspeople. The fund had been held by Sport Northland in perpetuity and the distributions of which have always been used for talent development of promising young Northland sports people. Since the establishment of the Northland Sport Endowment Fund with the Northland Community Foundation (NCF), NCF has been instrumental in growing the fund through their investment partners, Craigs Investments. Sport Northland now uses the distributions from the endowment fund to provide talent development services, grants and scholarships to promising young Northland sportspeople to better prepare them to reach the top of their chosen sport. Recently we caught up with Kahleah Nathan, who received a grant from the Northland Sport Endowment Fund via the Kauri Club Fund.
Kia Ora,
The sport I play is rugby 7’s 10’s and 15 aside. This year so far, I have played for Kerikeri under 18’s in a 7’s tournament in February down in Whangārei, we came second, I then played in a 10’s rugby tournament for Moerewa/ Kaikohe combined the “three little birds’ tournament” in Whangārei in March which we won. Right now I am playing for Moerewa woman in the prems competition, I am currently playing at number 8
and half back for my team however my preferred position is open side flanker, I am also in the Bay of islands academy, and the Northland rugby high performance program 2021. The Kauri club fund has helped me in so many ways as it has been used to get me to trainings, Tauranga bay Kaeo to Kerikeri and Moerewa I normally have 3 to 4 trainings a week and games on Sundays, with games been played from Te Rarawa in
the far north to Whangārei, and Dargaville, so it has been a huge help with petrol costs. The grant has also helped me pay for a gym membership, so that I can work on my strength and fitness for rugby, I usually go to the gym after school 4 days a week. It has helped me with buying strapping tape, a new good pair of rugby boots that will last the whole season, and I was also able to go to a physio to get an injury sorted which had been bothering me for a while, also my rugby club fee’s. The only challenge in this post Covid era would be at this stage not having a Northland rugby under 18’s competition. So thank you so much it has helped in so many ways.
Kind regards,
Kahleah Nathan.
To find out more about Northland Sport Endowment Fund click here: Northland Sport Endowment Fund
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